Soul Shoes in Dar Es Salaam

I was impressed with this display of over 100 individual styles of shoes arranged on the street for sale.

Young Boys in Matemwe

These images are of the super bright and totally engaging young fellows we had the pleasure of spending some time with in Matemwe. 

We made good friends with these guys over two days and now back in the UK I think about what these boys will become as men.

Tanzania Images

Overview on Tanzania

After a 9hour jouney from London to Niarobi and then a 6 hour stop over for a connecting flight to Tanzania we welcomed our arrival in crisp heat and hard reality of a new country for me and a new continent for my wife.

Dar Es Salaam

First Impressions

We briefly travelled through Dar Es Salaam on our way through to Zanzibar but our first impressions were of a city in the making; old juxtaposed against new and wealth existing next to poverty. The city has some 2.8 million inhabitants who reflect the country's youthful population. 

Hip Hop Thought for the Day

Our thought for the day is offered today by Lupe Fiasco – The Cool (http://www.lupefiasco.com/)

"Baba Says Cool For Thought" (feat. Iesha Jaco)

They thought it was cool to burn crosses in your front lawn as they hung you from trees in Your backyard.

They thought it was cool to leave you thirsty and stranded.

Katrina.

He thought it was cool to carry a gun in his classroom and open fire, virginia tech columbine,

Stop the violence.

They thought it was cool to tare down the projects and put up million dollar condos,

Gentrification.

They think its cool to stand on the block hiding products in their socks making quick dime bag

Dollars.

They think its cool to to ride down on you in blue and white unmarked cars, bustin you upside Yo head.

Freeze....cause the problem is we think its cool too.

Check your ingredients, before you overdose, on the cool.

useful thoughts

Big changes happen through a collection of small events.

The following marketing blogs deconstruct and disrupt conventional thinking:

http://michaelbatistich.com/
http://trendspotting.posterous.com/

5th November West London Skies

View from our rooftop when the london skies light up.

Radio Nurse

I spotted this object in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.

The Radio Nurse was the idea of Charles Lindberg, the pioneering 1920's US aviator and advocate of eugenics commissioned this baby monitor in 1932 after his son was abducted and killed.

A beautiful object formed from ugly necessity.